What’s on my DESIGN FLOOR?

| June 6, 2011

What is on my DESIGN WALL – AKA Design Floor this week? It is the beginnings of Judy Laquidara’s design – “DANDELION PARADE” and the pattern is free on her website at www.patchworktimes.com.  If you go to her website you can also see this quilt in another colorway!  I love Judy’s designs – and especially […]

Patchwork Times May UFO Completion – SNOWFLAKE ANGEL

| June 1, 2011

I finished the top of my May UFO for the PATCHWORK TIMES 2011 Challenge…..it is a wall hanging complete with embroidery and little pearls sewn on.  I will be hand quilting it – but for now it is COMPLETED! Here is a close up of the SNOWFLAKE  ANGEL   I KNOW that I should have […]

What is on my DESIGN WALL this week?

| May 30, 2011

This week I am ready to sew all of my 120 log cabin blocks together…..they are made from 1 1/2″ strips for the dark side of the blocks…..and 1″ strips for the light.  YES YOU READ RIGHT – I SAID THE LIGHT STRIPS ARE 1″ WIDE!  This makes it look curvy. YES 120 of these […]

Cakes are DONE, People are FINISHED – what about QUILTS – are they DONE DONE?

| May 30, 2011

While conducting  research at CAL STATE UNIVERSITY for my thesis, I was testing the memory of older and younger adults for learning new word processing procedures.  One morning, I peeked into the laboratory cubicle and very politely asked one of my research participants,  “Are you done, Mrs. _____”? SHE (being an 85 year old retired […]

What is on my DESIGN WALL?

| May 23, 2011

I don’t ACTUALLY have a design wall – but I will show you what is on my DESIGN FLOOR this week. It is sao’s ROAD TO BROWNWOOD QUILT (a Judy Laquidara design – the pattern is on her website at www.patchworktimes.com)  Last week I made the border blocks and the other borders *it seems like […]